Taste Test: Bradley Arthur Maxwell longs for life to take it ‘Easy on Me’
The Americana newcomer truly impresses with his vulnerable debut single.
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A debut single can make you or break your career before it even gets started. If enough promise is buried at the very core, you might actually be on to something quite extraordinary. Such is the case with Americana firebrand Bradley Arthur Maxwell, who has armed himself with a quite exquisite and vulnerable performance for his first go around. With “Easy on Me,” which seems to excavate splinters of his psyche after uprooting his life, Maxwell yearns for the pleasures and charm of back home. But the images slip from his fingertips before he can reign them back in, as often happens with time. Time is relentless and doesn’t care if you’re lonesome. “All this is going to break down,” he sings, carving his conviction with only an acoustic guitar’s measured tears. A performance both somehow polished and granular, Maxwell allows every single ounce of his pain to force the listener to their knees, too.
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